This Instagram Page Shares The Most Cursed Pics And Memes, And Here Are The 40 Spiciest Ones
There are pages dedicated to wholesome pictures. There are pages dedicated to funny pictures and memes. And then there are those who explore the world of cursed images. They're for pictures that have something unsettling in them, but they're still funny enough to get a chuckle or two out of you.
So, today, we're dedicating a post to the Cursed Memes Instagram page. A little bit mysterious, a tad funny, but 100% cursed – that's what this page aims for. If you're familiar with the concept, you'll probably avoid these during mealtime or before sleep. But morbid curiosity will probably get the best of you, so scroll away and check out what people on the other side of the Internet are doing.
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Remember Where You Parked The House
I did a search - the landslip is genuine - in Taiwan in 2010, but the house is photoshopped on.
Merry Christmas
He Do The Peek
Cursed images are not downright gross and scary. They only have a hint of the disturbing or the unsettling. To each their own, of course: some people love the movie Terrifier and its follow-up for the graphic and gross-out violence. Others are terrified (wink, wink) at the thought of seeing blood, even if on screen.
Experts say that we respond more strongly to disgusting or gross stimuli than to something emotionally neutral. Some argue that it's an evolutionary response: we avoid things that we're scared of or that disgust us. That's why it captures our attention: for safety reasons.
There Is No Gravity Anymore
Sleep Tight Sweet Prince
Me And My Future Wife
But since cursed images aren't outright disgusting and scary, they're more of a "constrained risk." That's a term used to describe things like rollercoasters or spicy food. Things people can enjoy without actually being in physical danger. At least, that's what psychologist Nina Strohminger suggests.
"Any negative feeling has the potential to be enjoyable when it is stripped of the belief that what is happening is actually bad," she writes. "Leaving behind physiological arousal that is, in itself, exhilarating or interesting." When we look at cursed images, we know that none of the subjects in them are in any danger. More often than not, they're manufactured for the Internet and other netizens to enjoy.
Hold On For Dear Life
The Elements
How To Skip Zoom Calls
The more interesting question is why we can't look away when we see a cursed image or want to see even more. The popularity of the infamous 50/50 subreddit in the 2010s can be one extreme example of our morbid curiosity. Cursed images are a tamer version of that. A creator of a cursed images page on Instagram explained the phenomena to Paper: "We love that tolerable forbidden zone, not too disgusting to turn around, but weird enough to keep us looking."
Tuck Your Homies In
I Bring You A New Religion
Stealth 100
This is SushiRamenRiku, who has a youtube channel where he does stuff like this to mess with his grandparents, among other very random and comical things.
Ryan Milner, an assistant professor in communications at the College of Charleston and author of The World Made Meme, has another theory. He says we like them because they're scary and creepy. Ultimately, they make us feel something, and that's their main appeal. "[They provoke] different emotions that make us feel something. And we share what makes us feel something."
Pic Of Me In My Room
You Have Been Detained
Oh Damn He Thicc
If I'm reading his little armband right, then this fellow is Italian, and all of their police uniforms look like they just stepped out of a pride parade.
Milner traces the origins to cursed images to Creepypastas. "The thing around Creepypasta stuff is that sometimes it blurs the lines between genuinely, earnestly supposed to be scary and something that's scary but also playful and funny. You can get that with cursed images as well, that balance between stuff that's supposed to be scary, that's supposed to make you raise your eyebrows, stuff that is striking and funny in a really kind of morbid way."
He Be A Lil Too Baked
Oh God, Batons Got Worse
On His Way To Shreks Adventure In London
Food is often involved in cursed images. Már Másson Maack writes that the purpose of food in cursed pictures is to remind us of our mortality and solidify our lack of agency in this world. "Food crosses the boundaries of our bodies and we're sickeningly dependent on it, reminding us we're never fully in control of our surroundings or an independent force in this world."
Just Me And The Boys
People On The Train Be Like Weeeeeee
One Of Us
By featuring food, cursed pics remind us of the invisible truth that we consciously try to think about as rarely as possible. We're just a glob of flesh full of millions of parasitic organisms floating through time and space. "They poke a hole in the lie we constantly tell ourselves that we're completely cerebral beings, above the filthiness surrounding the lives of animals," Maack writes.
The Pez Dispenser
No need to leave your pew, just raise your hand and open your mouth.
Where’s the wine dispenser? I’m thinking those wafers have been in there just a little too long
well it is a lot more sanitary than everyone sticking their germie fingers in the bowl, must have been during "Covid"
Should put the wafers in one of those chrome belt-mounted change makers...
I'm about to make more bad puns... this is already perfect. It can't be cruci-fixed. Those strange ones that don't fit in the container, though, are PEZts. Unbelievable.
Nanananananananana
Who Lives In A In A In A In A
But 'cursed' doesn't necessarily mean gross. It can just be slightly disturbing. As Jenny Odell, the author of How to Do Nothing, told The New Yorker, "'Cursed' brings to mind a sort of unholy juxtaposition—things that shouldn't be together, in a way that makes the whole thing feel senseless."
This can mean two things together that just feel deeply wrong when they are together. Because of its tamed nature when compared to other gross things that exist on the Internet, she calls cursed pics 'normcore horror.'
I Caught A Karen
I Want A Beard Like Him
Preach To The Preacher
Cursed images put us off. As Már Másson Maack goes on in his piece about cursed pictures, they're about presenting familiar things in an unfamiliar light. Sometimes even literally: flash photography is a big part of the cursed image aesthetic, giving it even more of a DIY feel. The point of it is to enhance our perception of the familiar, Maack explains.
Whats This Called?
The Game Of The Century
He Got That Thang
If you're a fan of cursed energy, we here at Bored Panda might have more things to your taste. There are pages dedicated to cursed foods. Even comments can be cursed, too. If you like venturing into the uncanny valley, cursed toys might be for you. And if you want to cleanse your palette after this possibly disturbing list, you can do so while looking at blursed images. They're pics that give off a blessed and cursed energy at the same time.
He Got That Drip
Feeding The Danger Noodle The Regular Noodle
Love A Bit Of Battery Acid
There was an alcoholic energy drink back when I was in college called Sparks. It looked like a battery and tasted like Flintstone vitamins.
The Walk Of Destiny
This New Yolk Remover Works Marvels
Cheese
Always Watching
Add that to the nightmare fuel. It’s currently 1:55 for me, let’s see what else we can add
He Is Trying To Escape Being Eaten
Kirby is nearly finished digesting his (its?) latest victim.
Rate My Silver Surfer Cosplay
Just say pictures not memes. How hard is it to get stuff right when youre a "writer"
Just say pictures not memes. How hard is it to get stuff right when youre a "writer"